what i had Rob, for example... was a ladder, with each of the rungs and the two side poles as separate meshes... joined as siblings in TrueSpace...
when i loaded em into 3Impact's new code, that now enables multitextured meshes to be loaded (it didn't before, go figure :) ), it seemed to take forever before the loading screen dissapeared...
then it dawned on me that my model might be partly at fault... so i took that ladder (and a few otehr things) and unioned all the rungs and support poles into a single mesh...
the model now loaded in 16 seconds as opposed to 98 previosuly... and the part count the engine had to split it up into was reduced from 168 to 35...
that's why i was wondering if it would make a difference in Blitz... even though the circumstances aren't the same...
--Mike
when i loaded em into 3Impact's new code, that now enables multitextured meshes to be loaded (it didn't before, go figure :) ), it seemed to take forever before the loading screen dissapeared...
then it dawned on me that my model might be partly at fault... so i took that ladder (and a few otehr things) and unioned all the rungs and support poles into a single mesh...
the model now loaded in 16 seconds as opposed to 98 previosuly... and the part count the engine had to split it up into was reduced from 168 to 35...
that's why i was wondering if it would make a difference in Blitz... even though the circumstances aren't the same...
--Mike